Protectors

Chapter 1-- Send Off

“My Hat!” I shouted and leapt up from my chair. I chased the hat through a bunch of trees, my 5 person family was on an extended camping trip, sound fun? You try living out of a tent, with bugs and dirt for 2 weeks. Anyways, I’m Alexis, and my hat is going way further than any other normal hat should. I’m 14 years old and suffer of a vitamin C deficiency, And thus I have extremely pale skin. The rest of my features also include, blond hair that comes to my mid back and grey eyes. Sun screen has been my best friend on this trip, I have so much of it on that it’s a miracle I’m not white as snow!

My hat landed in a fairy circle, in the middle of a meadow. The grass was a bright green that really off-set my white skin. Every few feet a different color wild flower had grown. There was something weird about the meadow, that I couldn’t put my finger on.

Something glinted in the dirt a few feet away from where my hat had landed. I grabbed my hat and went to see the shiny object. It was a little point of quartz that was tinged a shade of pink. I picked it up, it had dirt all over it, but sadly, I was getting used to the dirt. I investigated it a little more, I think the shade of pink came from Iron Oxides in the stone. I decided the stone would be used for a necklace.

“Hi.” A voice said from behind me and I jumped ten feet in the air. I turned around to see where the voice had come from, it had come from a short and slender brunette girl. She was tanned, and her long brown hair was tied up in a pony. In her hand she held a green crystal, almost exactly like mine.

“Goodness, you scared me. I’m Alexis, nice to meet you.” I said holding my hand out, my other fist clamped around my crystal. She shook my hand.

“Cynthia, good to meet you too.” She, Cynthia Said. And from behind a bush popped a boy, who was obviously Hispanic. He had tanned skin and short cropped black hair, he also wore soccer stuff.

“Drew, nice to meet both of you.” He said walking up to us. Around his neck, secured to a cord, was a purple stone, same as the both of ours. Something freaky was going on here.

“Drew, you have one too.” I said, holding out my palm, and unclenching the fist that with held the pink stone from the world.

“I’ve got one too!” Cynthia said, showing the stone that I’d seen earlier. Drew took the stone off the cord. And put it in the middle next to ours.

“I wonder…” I started then trailed off. I looked over at the fairy circle, the mushrooms, which I’d just glanced over on the way to get my hat had sort of an iridescent shimmer to it, certain ones looked pink when the sun hit them, others purple, some green and a few looked blue. And all the colors were in groups of four, separated by just a few inches. I wondered what would happen if we all laid our stones one the ground, facing each other. We just needed blue. And from the sound of the pines rustling I would guess that the person was about to arrive. He stumbled from behind a pine, wearing jeans and just a plain white t-shirt. His blond hair whipped around his deep blue eyes. One hand dangled limply, while the other had a tight fist.

“Hi, I’m Thomas.” He said when he got the group. He didn’t offer for us to shake his hand, he just simply stood there. I realized our hands were still open showing the crystals.

“I’m Alexis, this is Cynthia, and this is Drew. As you can see there is one thing we all have in common. The crystals.” I said, and then he opened his palm and showed the blue crystal. “I knew it! Guys, come here.” I said, then closed my palm around my crystal and almost ran the few feet to the fairy circle. I placed the pink crystal pointing towards the pink iridescent mushrooms. “Do the same.” I said to them and watched in amazement as a light beam shot out from the crystals, converging into one beam that was pointing up wards.

“Whoa.” Cynthia said. Thomas took a step back in surprise, and Drew’s eyes widened as wide as saucers. The air around the light beam condensed and a form shimmered into existence. It was a maiden, who was the description of beauty. She had long curled black hair that went from her head to her waist, she wore a pale blue dress that shimmered in the light and around her head glimmered a silver circlet. I gasped.

“The time has come for you.” She said and suddenly, I was drop dead worried. Usually when floating people in the middle of mushroom circles say that it means someone or something is about to kill you. “You for are the purest of heart, and have been chosen by The Crystaline to defend.”

Call me crazy, but I was interested in what she was saying, I wasn’t just scared to death. “Chosen, for what?” I asked, my heart beating so loud that I was sure everyone within a miles radius could hear it.

“To protect the Crystaline, you four have been chosen to go to The Bellus.” The Bellus? “A far away realm where you must protect this force from the evils of The Obsidinate.” Our Crystals flew up, past our heads and into the beam. And when they came out, they were now formed into jewelry, my pink stone was imbeded in a silver necklace. I fastened the necklace around my neck, and my entire outfit changed. I was wearing a medieval type dress, the skirt was pink and the bodice was also pink, and a white cloak rested on my shoulders. Cynthia was dressed the same way, but her out fit was green. And the boys, were wearing the same thing, a blue button up shirt and brown pants with brown boots, but on their wrists was their color gem embedded in leather wrist bands. “You will be guided on the correct path, have faith in each other, trust in the Crystaline and you won’t fail. Good luck, Protectors.” A bright light shown and a blast of thunder and then suddenly, I was standing with the 3 people who I had just met in the middle of a sunflower field.